MDZ Crew Landscaping & Paving is a landscaping, masonry, and paving contractor based in Lynn, Massachusetts, self-reporting about seven years in business and describing its work as covering the greater Boston area. Homeowners hire the crew mainly for hardscape and yard work — retaining walls, patios, walkways, driveways, and general landscaping and cleanup — and most reviewers describe dealing directly with a team lead named David, while the business's BBB and Thumbtack records list Misael Mendez as the registered owner.
The track record is deep and consistently positive: Google shows a 4.9-star average across 104 ratings, and Angi and Thumbtack each show a perfect 5.0. Retaining wall and stone masonry repairs come up again and again as some of the crew's strongest work — in recent reviews from this spring, homeowners describe quick, clean repairs to a stone retaining wall along a driveway and a full walkway-and-retaining-wall replacement that led to a follow-up driveway job. In an August 2025 review, another homeowner said the crew saved them roughly $12,000 on a retaining wall and $3,000 on a drainage berm by finding a more affordable fix for a swampy front yard. Patios, walkways, and asphalt driveways are just as frequently praised, and several homeowners who hired the crew for one hardscape project came back for a driveway or a seasonal cleanup afterward — a pattern that runs from 2022 through the most recent six months, during which 22 reviews were posted with none negative.
The one clear complaint on file, from August 2025, describes a customer who hired the crew for weeding, bush trimming, and lawn work; the bushes were done well, but the crew reportedly never returned to finish clearing leaves despite being asked more than once, and a poison ivy treatment didn't take. It's an isolated report against dozens of positive ones, but it's worth confirming upfront that every item on a job's punch list, not just the headline work, will actually get finished.
For retaining walls, patios, driveways, and broader yard and hardscape work in the Lynn/North Shore area, MDZ Crew's reviews suggest a responsive, hardworking crew that repeat customers keep calling back — just get the full scope of a job, including any cleanup items, spelled out before work starts.
